de.smartics.tagcloud.collector
Interface TagCollector

All Known Implementing Classes:

TokenizerTagCollector

public interface TagCollector

Collects words from input streams to be added to a cloud instance.

Author:

Robert Reiner

Method Summary

void	clear() Removes all tag information collected.
void	collect(InputStream input) Collects words from the input stream.
TagCloud	getTagCloud() Returns a reference to the cloud.

Method Detail

collect

void collect(InputStream input)
             throws IOException

Collects words from the input stream. The words are added as tags to the tag cloud.

Throws:

IOException

getTagCloud

TagCloud getTagCloud()

Returns a reference to the cloud.

Returns:

a reference to the cloud.

clear

void clear()

Removes all tag information collected.